*Among the zombies infected with the [[twitt-worm]] are two who bear a strong resemblance to [[Fry, Bender and Leela's replacements|Fry and Leela's replacements]] from "[[When Aliens Attack]]". There is a zombie character resembling {{s|Krusty the Clown}} from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.

*Among the zombies infected with the [[twitt-worm]] are two who bear a strong resemblance to [[Fry, Bender and Leela's replacements|Fry and Leela's replacements]] from "[[When Aliens Attack]]". There is a zombie character resembling {{s|Krusty the Clown}} from ''[[The Simpsons]]''.

*The crew (other than Fry, Bender and Leela) become zombies.

*The crew (other than Fry, Bender and Leela) become zombies.

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*The chair shown during the [[Infosquito]] gag is the same one used in the {{w|Star Trek}} episode "{{w|Dagger of the Mind}}".

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*The chair shown during the [[Infosquito]] gag is the same one used in the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode "{{st|episode=Dagger of the Mind}}".

*The worm only affects the between 1 and 2 million people, because Mom did not stop to think some people might be following Fry and Bender. and, when the crew had lunch at the pizza place across the street, Leela mentioned she had unsubscribed from Fry's [[Twitcher|Twit]] feed the day before, and was implied not to be a follower of Bender when Bender tweeted and no beeps were heard in the room.

*The worm only affects the between 1 and 2 million people, because Mom did not stop to think some people might be following Fry and Bender. and, when the crew had lunch at the pizza place across the street, Leela mentioned she had unsubscribed from Fry's [[Twitcher|Twit]] feed the day before, and was implied not to be a follower of Bender when Bender tweeted and no beeps were heard in the room.

The third world turns out to be the Third World of the Antares system, where all e-waste is dumped and burnt, turning it into ash and releasing toxic gases into the atmosphere. While the lead alien explains the process to the crew, the other aliens partially dismantle the ship and Bender. Leela is horrified by the devastation caused by e-waste polution, and decides that the crew should avoid throwing out electronics just because it is dated, and takes back her old phone.

Her noble actions are short-lived: when an ad for the new eyePhone appears on television, the crew immediately throw out their current phones and head for the queue, which stretches across town. After a day of waiting, the crew begins to suspect that they are nothing but consumer zombies. Luckily, Dr. Ben Beeler is there to relieve them of their worries, as the eyePhone have all the apps you need.

Upon finally arriving at the Mom Store, a giant screen with Mom announces that the eyePhones are in short supply, which spreads panic among the shoppers. The short supply line is revealed to be a method for increasing demand. Despite being told that the eyePhone has no choice of carrier, can't change the battery and more, Fry becomes impatient and demands the man at the counter to take his money. Fry is about to ask why the device is called an 'eyePhone' when the salesman installs it directly in Fry's eye.

Act II: "Did you know these eyePhones are phones too?"

A promo pic showing the crew using the floating screens from their eyePhones

Soon all the crew members are addicts to their eyePhones and especially the extra service, Twit, which allows them to send small video messages to everyone who wishes to see it. Bender becomes obsessed with the popularity he can easily gain from sending out videos and increasing his amount of followers. Fry, on the other hand, is not doing so well in numbers of followers, but decides to accept a challenge from Bender about who can first reach one million followers. The loser of the bet must bathe in a pool filled with puke and diarrhea from a two-headed goat.

Meanwhile, Mom is very pleased with the sale of her eyePhones, because they are a much more efficient way of sucking information out of people than her "old-fashioned methods like spybots and Infosquitoes". With Twitcher, people are apparently willing to post everything they do, which all eyePhones record and Mom can see all this information. In addition, she is pleased to learn that Bender and Fry are holding their million follower-Twit challenge, because when one person reaches one million followers, she can initiate her Twit-worm, what she calls the true killer app of the eyePhone, but never fully explains what it does.

Back at Planet Express, Bender's follower numbers are rising fast, while Fry is still in the two digits. Fry learns about Leela's horrible secret, that she has a bisexual singing boil on her right butt cheek that she calls Susan, an obvious pun on Susan Boyle. In discovering it, his eyePhone also films it. Leela begs Fry not to upload it, even though it will increase the number of his Twit followers. Desperate not to lose, Fry uploads it anyway.

Act III: "Impending news, everyone!"

The video is a huge success, and Leela is devastated when she discovers that Fry lied to her. Walking through the streets of New New York, Leela feels she has become a freak show and desperately wants to hide her shame.

The video results in Fry and Bender reaching one million followers at the same time; with no loser, no one has to swim in the pool. Mom is even more pleased with the results, as she now has two million people she can infect with the Twit-worm. In front of the Planet Express headquarters, Leela finds Fry, who reveals that, to show his remorse, he published a video of himself diving into the pool. But Leela has discovered that her boil is already yesterday's news, and nobody cares about it any more.

Meanwhile, around them, swarms of people walk zombie-like towards the Mom Store, where they are going to be the first to purchase the new eyePhone 2.0.

Reception

"Attack of the Killer App" aired 22:00, 1 July, 2010 on Comedy Central, following a rebroadcast of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Leela". It received 2.2 million viewers and 1.1 million adults age 18-49.[3]

Because it is more topical than most episodes, and because of the arguable out-of-character moments of some characters, some fans rank the episode among the worst in the history of the series.

iPhone controversy

Comedy Central removed mention of the "eyePhone" in their online video previews,[4] resulting in an awkward reaction to nothing by the characters.[5] By this point, neither Comedy Central nor Apple Inc. have made a comment on why the line was removed, but MacLife holds that only one company could be interested in removing it.[4]

The worm only affects the between 1 and 2 million people, because Mom did not stop to think some people might be following Fry and Bender. and, when the crew had lunch at the pizza place across the street, Leela mentioned she had unsubscribed from Fry's Twit feed the day before, and was implied not to be a follower of Bender when Bender tweeted and no beeps were heard in the room.

When the eyePhone salesman that Fry talks to opens the eyePhone box, the Mom Store logo is properly oriented, but, once the box is opened and the camera angle changes, the logo is flipped upside-down, thus again properly oriented in relation to the camera. Also, after he reaches for the eyePhone, his hand grabs more than one copy. Strangely, in the very next scene, he has only one to give to Fry.

When Leela is talking to Fry after discovering the eyePhone functions as a phone, she is flying through space, as shown by the stars flashing by through the window. However, in the next second, she crashes the ship into the Planet Express building.

The ship moves at 99% the speed of light (4ACV09), so it is possible that it was in space one second, and landing at Planet Express in the next second.

Note that there is one chair missing. Interestingly, the first sitting arrangement is the same as the one in "The Late Philip J. Fry".

Bender should be seated where Hermes was seated so the angle of the video he posted would be accurate.

In the final scene where everyone turns into a zombie, Fry and Leela are unaffected, even though both have eyePhones. Arguably, Fry could be unaffected because he is the worm carrier, or because of his unique brain, but there is no explanation as to Leela.

She states in the pizzeria that she unsubscribed Fry's tweets, and she may have simply not subscribed to Bender at all.

The second time Fry and Leela hug, Fry has 4 legs.

Allusions

Fry refers to Mr. Chunks as a puke-me-poop-you, possibly his species name, but surely a play on the two-headed pushmi-pullyu from the classic children’s series Dr. Dolittle.